The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-07-20
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items OF Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

as a Bible. class teacher N Boston.
General Sheridan is conquering cock
tails at historic New Bedford, Mass.
Jacob Sharp has been sentenced to four
years Imprisonment and So, 900 fine.
j. II. Whipple, of Young's Hotel, Bos.
ton, carries an insurance of $500, 600 on
his life.
MIR. and Mrs. John Jacob Astor have
gone to their Newport villa for the sum,
mor.
JAY Gould does not smoke. He vents
his tendency in this direction to smoking
the other fellows.
Simon Cameron will sail for Europe next
"Wednesday, accompanied by Colonel Self.
ger and Larry Jerome.
Despite the efforts to roust him, cx-Sena.
tor Congcr,s son still holds the postoilicc
fort nj Washington.
Root Post G. a. r.. of Syracuse, n. y,
invited President and MIS-. Cleveland to
visit Syracuse.
Judge Allan G. Thurman has written a
letter, positively declining 10 be 4 candidate
for Governor Of Ohio.
The military clements in Sofia is turbu.
lent and is calling upon Major Pctcroir,
the new Minister of War, to resign.
The New York and Mobile Steamship
Company was organized in New York
Wednesday with Il capital stock of $50, 600.
Cholera is rapidly increasing in Sicily.
OF the 200 cases n Catania 1i0 have proved
fatal.
Qlccn kupiolani has left New York for
San francisco. There was no dcmontra.
ton at her departure.
y terrific tornado and hail storm is re.
ported III Dakota. Houses were blown
down and the crops ruined.
Several OF the police have been arrested
at Wexford, Ireland, for assaults upon
women in cjectiNg tenants.
y large new bridge on the Illinois Cen
tr&l Railroad, near Chicago, fell on ;Satur-
day and killed seven workmen.
The Government has engaged q tug to
take supplies from Tampa to the persons
quarantined at Egmont Key, Fla.
Postmaster General Villas, in a letter TO a
postal clerk, thoroughly disapprovcs of the
prol 0scd convention of postal clerks.
Eve hundred workrncu in the Swift Iron
and steel Works, of Newport, Ky, have
struck on account of a reduction Of wages,
II ','Nes X. Purycar, the murderer. of
DinM!ddic county, Va, has been rcspitcd
till he 18th August.
In thc Educational Convention of Chicago
Wednesday resolutions were introduced
urging the passage of the Blair bill.
Grape rot is reported all through the
~tlrCinolt section of Virginia the crop is
virtually destroyed.
Tie President aud Mrs. Cleveland have
arrived at Holland Patent. y. Y. They
are ,1e guests of Miss Cleveland.
TIE East Tennessee Railroad directors
nave declared Il dividend of i per cent. on
the preferred stock payable August /.
W y. Gamer, of Royal Centre. lndiana.
shot and Killed his wife. whom he took for
a u'giar, Monday night.
Tie National Educational Association is
in session a Chicago. Eighteen thousand
pcors were present at the opening session.
Secretary Lamar will leave Washington
the latter part Of this week for Macon. Ga.
where he will attend the wedding of his
daus litter.
A&y;ccs from honolulu to July J state
that everything is quiet and the new Gov
crnr,eut Is working smoothly. The Glib
sons are in Jail.
Tie local oplioN election which was held
in tn aioncwnll district, Virginia. Wcincs.
day resulted in a victory for the "wcts' by
somolhifg over 100 majority.
Tic Cathoac Usyo'd, "A New York paper
| which >~us,uinc 1 DIR NcGiynn i'm lie r5rri, !,
ccurre, has suspended publication FOR wan,
Of Patronage.
Tie volunteer fire department. Of Char.
| lottc las disbandcd. IEr tr,yLlr mas.
out of bills made by the department, which
The 'lucgmcn refused TO pay.
Archer Martin, colorcd, wa hanged AT
Rockingham, y. c.. Tuesday, for tic
murder OF Henry Mcneil, colored, in May
it'l.
Ms. Craig and her niece. Miss Allie
Phillips. were caught midway on n hirh
trcSt,e near Dalton. Ga, Tuesday morning
ana hi!Icd by a train,
Tie Empcrors of Austria and Germany
will meet on Monday next to decide anon
a p'hcy with regard 10 tic election of
iiintc Ferdinand to the Bulgarian throne.
In Cincinnati the Count has rendered n
decision declaring the Fidelity Bank charter
ioFicic" me proceedings were instituted
DI IolAplEnllcf l!clhOID.